Next season prediction: we meet someone who has spent a significant amount of time living and surviving in the upside down.

How long do you estimate it has been since the Mindflayer corrupted that world? The power is still running in some places. And they found Will and Barb in a nest like area. I think there were some other dead bodies down there. And while things are in ruins, it doesn’t look like decades of decay.

It’s quite possible that dimension only got invaded 3 or 4 years ago. So yeah, there could be survivors. Maybe not in upside down Hawkins, but maybe in distant cities.

The Mindflayer doesn’t seem to like heat or water (his tunnels avoided lakes and the dogs ran from the sprinklers). So people on islands or in the tropics might be holding out.

Then again, the Mindflayer might be terraforming the planet and changing the atmosphere to block out the sun. So who knows.

I didn't like the Lost Sister episode. It felt like an episode of the X-Men and didn't really do anything to move the story along.

I also didn't like Nancy and Johnathon's story either. I prefer Nancy with Steve instead. He didn't really do anything wrong, and she dumps him. And the whole reason they went was to get justice for Barb and resolution for her parents, when all they did was come up with a lie to tell them and get the place shut down, which most of them ended up being killed first anyways. They were actually the good guys in this one and trying to do right by everyone. That watered down news report conveniently helped them out as they now have a cause for all the deaths in the building, and with the gate closed, they can shut the building down.

Steve and Johnathan are both nice guys ultimately... one is just a loner and the other a popular guy. I’m fine with Nancy dating either or neither.

But as for her sidequest with Johnathan... yeah, it was really just THERE. They put a final nail in the coffin of that DOE branch that was already going down. They did bust some higher-ups who likely helped with covering shit up, but my guess is that the building taking Earth to the edge of annihilation would have done that too.

This is kind of a big over arching question that encompasses seasons 1 and 2–why does the DoE have a room set up to monitor the phone calls of this small town. I mean there’s some serious inferstructure there and all to track the activity of Hawkins.